Political Quotes

“The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 45, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 172 Leg.] YEAS--45 Alexander Barrasso Baucus Bayh Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl Landrieu LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Rockefeller Sessions Shelby Snowe Tester Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--52 Akaka Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Chambliss Lincoln McCaskill The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 52. Two-thirds of the Senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. Amendment No. 4253 Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment No. 4253, offered by the Senator from Maine. The Senator from Maine.”